1999 California Operations Product 
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2019
Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2010
In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. It’s important to quantify the value of your product or service. With no numbers as proof points few people will buy your products. I encourage it.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. They taped people using existing products. He’s a doctor.
Agile VC
JUNE 30, 2016
Cruise control was invented in the late 1940’s and was first adopted on a production car in 1958, the Chrysler Imperial. The newest one is a power-operated accelerator pedal…” Period brochure for 1958 Imperial “Auto Pilot” (cruise control). 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge winner.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Don’t launch.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 6, 2013
Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.
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